Re: Usage of gnus mailing list mode

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> But there's one thing I don't like.  With the to-address group parameter
> set, a follow up to a mailing list message created "To:
> mailing@list.example".  With this funky mailing list mode, the To header
> is filled with the other poster's address and the mailing list is only
> Cc-ed.
>
> Personally, I don't like it too much if people reply to my mailing list
> articles to both me and the list.  IMHO that's redundant and annoying.
> Is that a convention and are there good reasons for such a double-reply?

AFAIK, that's what 'Mail-Followup-To' and 'Mail-Copies-To' headers are
for (see mine). However, not many mail clients know them...

> If not, how do I teach gnus to put the mailing list in the To-header and
> to omit the Cc (unless I do a wide reply).

I don't think this is possible with only the 'to-list parameter being
set. You could sync the 'to-address parameter with the 'to-list
parameter in mailing-list mode. Not really nice, but this should work:

(add-hook 'gnus-mailing-list-mode-hook 
	  (lambda ()
	    (unless (gnus-group-get-parameter 
		     gnus-newsgroup-name 'to-address)
	      (let ((to-list (gnus-group-get-parameter 
			      gnus-newsgroup-name 'to-list)))
		(when to-list
		  (gnus-group-set-parameter gnus-newsgroup-name 
					    'to-address to-list))))))

-David